MGA Education and Community Group tour booking system

MGA provides FREE tours to schools and community groups all year round. MGA’s tours are available Tuesday-Friday, 9am-4pm.

You can customise your visit to MGA using the options below.

1. Please select as many components of your visit as required. These selections determine the total duration of your visit. Please ensure you include any free time you may require (listed at the bottom of the page in blue).

2. Once you have selected all the components of your visit, please select continue at the bottom of the page. On the screen that follows, you will be shown a calendar with all the available date and time options that fit your selected tour length.

Schools

- the role of MGA as a public gallery
- collection and acquisition policies and procedures
- role of staff members in particular the Curator
- preservation and conservation practices
- exhibition installation and design
- gallery building and facilities
- publicity, funding and sponsorship
- and a visit to the gallery storage area

- the role of MGA as a public gallery
- collection and acquisition policies and procedures
- role of staff members in particular the Curator
- preservation and conservation practices
- exhibition installation and design
- gallery building and facilities
- publicity, funding and sponsorship
- and a visit to the gallery storage area

A tour of the exhibitions with a focus on the art elements and principles, photographic techniques, concepts, and display methods employed by the artists. This tour can be tailored for your unit of study or area of interest.

Due to popular demand, MGA provides a basic overview of the workings of a museum for year 11 students (units 1&2) for schools who wish to begin this content early. A cut-back 'Behind the Scenes' tour that includes the gallery storage area. Particularly popular at the end of the school year before setting summer holiday homework that requires self-directed visits to galleries.

A tour of the exhibitions with a focus on the art elements and principles, photographic techniques, and concepts employed by the artists. This tour can be tailored for your unit of study or area of interest.

A tour of the exhibitions with a focus on the art elements and principles, photographic techniques, and concepts employed by the artists. This tour can be tailored for your unit of study or area of interest.

An introduction to the exhibitions with a focus on the concepts, photographic techniques and display methods employed by the artists. This tour can be tailored for your unit of study or area of interest.

Explore key works and themes in the exhibitions on display with a focus on the concepts, photographic techniques and display methods employed by the artists. This tour can be tailored for your unit of study or area of interest.

CERT IV and DIPLOMA Photo Imaging - Photographic Industry classes. The role of the gallery as the Australian home of photography, the roles of staff members and tasks involved in a museum, pathways into the industry and a visit to the MGA collection storage room.